# Botticelli - June 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 1, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899 "2013-06-01T22:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/1 "2013-06-01T22:55:36Z")
It’s Summertime, fellow Dopers, and, having checked Elendil’s Heir’s chart, I am D! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/2 "2013-06-01T23:23:29Z")
Were you erroneously declared our 34th President? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/3 "2013-06-01T23:25:26Z")
Were you our ACTUAL 34th President? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/4 "2013-06-01T23:35:27Z")
I am not Dewey, nor am I Ike. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/5 "2013-06-01T23:48:40Z")
IQs: Did you write _Deliverence_? Did you found an American company originally known for manufacturing gunpowder and dynamite? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/6 "2013-06-02T00:42:29Z")
I’m not James Dickey. Take a DQ for the other. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/7 "2013-06-02T01:26:40Z")
IQ1: Did you have adventures with a homework machine and a smallifying machine? IQ2: Did you become a hero for killing a man from Gath? IQ3: Do you do a strip about an obese cat? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/8 "2013-06-02T02:02:58Z")
I’m not Danny Dunn or Jim Davis. Unless Dick Whittington killed the man from Gath, take a DQ for #2. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/9 "2013-06-02T02:31:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you have adventures with a homework machine and a smallifying machine? > IQ2: Did you become a hero for killing a man from Gath? > IQ3: Do you do a strip about an obese cat? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’m not Danny Dunn or Jim Davis. Unless Dick Whittington killed the man from Gath, take a DQ for #2. Correct on Danny Dunn and Jim Davis. Goliath of Gath was killed by a shepherd named David. DQ: Real? IQ1: Did you read the writing on the wall? IQ2: Were you a space traveller in the 24 1/2th century? IQ3: Were you one of four brothers who played for Essendon in the '80s and '90s? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/10 "2013-06-02T02:33:42Z")
Did you replace Inigo Montoya at the BAU? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/11 "2013-06-02T11:33:35Z")
IQ1: Were you the impresario who commissioned Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, among many other works? IQ2: Were you a lutenist who may have spied on the court of Denmark for Sir Robert Cecil? IQ3: Are the pipes a-calling you? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/12 "2013-06-02T12:19:26Z")
IQ1: Did you read the writing on the wall? IQ2: Were you a space traveller in the 24 1/2th century? IQ3: Were you one of four brothers who played for Essendon in the '80s and '90s? [/QUOTE] I am not Daniel. I am not Duck Dodgers. Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/13 "2013-06-02T12:20:30Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Did you replace Inigo Montoya at the BAU? Unless that’s the Dread Pirate Roberts, take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/14 "2013-06-02T12:21:40Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Were you the impresario who commissioned Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, among many other works? > IQ2: Were you a lutenist who may have spied on the court of Denmark for Sir Robert Cecil? > IQ3: Are the pipes a-calling you? I’m not Danny Boy. Take 2 DQs and welcome!. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/15 "2013-06-02T12:23:20Z")
DQ: Real? DQ1: Fictional. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/16 "2013-06-02T14:01:11Z")
> [@TexCat](#): > > IQs: > Did you write _Deliverence_? > Did you found an American company originally known for manufacturing gunpowder and dynamite? Correct on James Dickey. E. I. DuPont for the 2nd. DQ: Male? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/17 "2013-06-02T16:37:26Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Were you the impresario who commissioned Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, among many other works? > IQ2: Were you a lutenist who may have spied on the court of Denmark for Sir Robert Cecil? > IQ3: Are the pipes a-calling you? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’m not Danny Boy. Take 2 DQs and welcome!. #1 is Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the ‘Ballets Russes’, and the man responsible for commissioning the music of Ravel, Satie, Stravinsky (among others), for such ballets as ‘Daphnis et Chloé’, ‘Parade’, ‘Petroushka’, ‘The Firebird’ and ‘The Rite of Spring’. #2 is John Dowland, an Englishman who never got the position of court lutenist to Queen Elizabeth I of England. He may have served as a spy while he traveled to France and to Denmark performing and composing. Let’s see… DQ1: Are you a literary character? DQ2: If you were real, would you be alive today? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/18 "2013-06-02T16:42:03Z")
That’s David Rossi. DQ: Military figure? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/19 "2013-06-02T22:19:54Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you read the writing on the wall? > IQ2: Were you a space traveller in the 24 1/2th century? > IQ3: Were you one of four brothers who played for Essendon in the '80s and '90s? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Daniel. I am not Duck Dodgers. Take a DQ for #3 Correct on Daniel and Duck Dodgers. Terry, Neale, Anthony and Chris Daniher all played Australian rules football for Essendon. DQ: American? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/20 "2013-06-02T23:25:10Z")
DQ1) Fictional DQ2) Male DQ3) Literary character DQ4) Would not be alive today if real DQ5) Not a military character DQ6) Not American [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899.md?page=2)